Obervation 7

Site: Snow King
Date: 5/28/08
Time: 5:10
Temperature: 59 deg
Weather: cloudy and raining
Wind: high
Soil: muddy
Hypothesis:

The temperature yesturday was strange because the day looked sunny, but at the same time it rain in the afternoon. The population of biotic factors have decreased as well the abiotic factors. The food web that occurs in my area never stops. The plants obtain their energy from the sun that later is passed to a primary organism like a mouse or small bird that eats the grass. The next thing that happens is that as the mouse or bird has consumed the energy, a bigger creature eats the smaller organinsm to get the same amount of energy and it called a secondary consumer (cat or dog). Then the large creature is eaten by an even bigger living thing (tertiary) but the larger creature doesn't get more energy than the smallrer creature, its get the same amount of energy that the other biotic factor did. The enrgy that is given to the next animal in line is approximately 10 percent of energy. After the bigger organisms get the energy in a time of period it might die and decompose, but its corpse are eaten by bacteria, and at the sames time, the energy that was in that body goes back where it started. My hypothesis is that as time passes more energy is going to be lost, but at the same time recovered.